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August 30, 2024
Our Land and Water has now ended.
Our mission was to preserve the most fundamental treasures of Aotearoa – its land and water – while producing value from those same treasures.
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Journal Article
Does variable rate irrigation decrease nutrient leaching losses from grazed dairy farming?
A six-year study was conducted to determine whether the use of variable rate irrigation (VRI), compared to uniform rate irrigation (URI), could decrease N and…
Guidance
Analysing Trade-Offs in Land-Use Decision-Making
A free training course by Xiaoting Hou-Jones (IIED, UK) and Alan Renwick (Lincoln University, New Zealand). This virtual training aims to help researchers learn how…
Measuring Denitrification
The development of a method for measuring denitrification is a first for New Zealand, providing vital data for understanding natural denitrification processes
This project has produced
Technical Report
Challenges and Opportunities for New Zealand Agriculture under Climate Change (2022 update)
Future climate is likely to have a major impact on the primary sector, and has the potential to drive major shifts in land use as…
Technical Report
The Matrix of Drivers: 2018 Update
The Matrix of Drivers draws upon 650 unique sources of information (494 international and 156 domestic) of academic, industry, regulatory and legislative origin. This 2019…
Technical Report
Emerging land use opportunities for collectively-owned Māori land: exploring cultural license to use indigenous organisms in high-value product development
This report describes findings from a project that explored tikanga-led good practice, cultural license, and appropriate benefit sharing approaches in working with indigenous organisms from…
Infographic
Collective Storytelling
Collective storytelling as a river restoration tool. Five catchment restoration communities across New Zealand were engaged to explore how knowledge sharing via stories could inspire…
Technical Report
Effects of climate change and erosion mitigation on suspended sediment loads and visual clarity in the Wairoa catchment, Hawke’s Bay
The Wairoa River is significant to the iwi and hapū of Te Rohe o Te Wairoa. An important threat to the health of the river…
Infographic
Catchment Journey Template
This Catchment Journey Template offers catchment groups an interactive way to capture their freshwater restoration vision and goals with a focus on sustainable land management…
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